Data is to be considered as public, reflecting what citizens want to be known, shared

Opendata licensed

But each coordination group has the right to choose what data he wants to see published, and what data he wants to be not available.

Future prospects

A shared researching space

Access to databases for researcks (universities, ...)

Freetagging for custom research on databases

Research working groups

European results on well-being

Precautions with global statistics drawn from criteria attribution

Those are qualitative data gathere the framework of reflexion groups with citizens, following a same methodology

Attribution is systematized and controlled, but may sligvary in some circumstances

What global statistics ?

European level statistiques all countries mixed but per homogenous group kind

Based on criteria attribution

Well-being surveys put together

Statistics compared depending on the countries

Comparating results from different cities, various repartition of criteria

How to put data together ?

Project of fight against poverty in 30 pilot cities with the development of pilot actions

How to make a platform more action-oriented ?

What online tool to share creativity, pilot actions ?

How to work together develop interesting action on an European level ?

Edgeryders example (COE, 2012)

A web-only platform as a social network of local activisits

Nice outputs, good participation a lot of contacts between participants

Making real innovative ideas using mutual help (to find solutions to blocking problems)

But an approach lacking local rooting, some of the actors felt isolated

A too much individualistic approach

How to embed it into SPIRAL to be a potential of action building of local groups ?

Interaction happened mostly online. It has to combine online and offline elements in the new project

Final questions

What shape may SPIRAL take to play its role in building a network of coresponsible territories ?

What would our website be in 5 years ?

For what purposes, which evolution ?

How to work together for future evolutions of wikispiral.org ?

Quick rundown on the old program Edgeryders

Edgeryders project was devised as a means of deepening understanding of the specific challenges young Europeans feel they face in their attempts to successfully navigate the transition to an independent active life, as well as some of the innovative and creative ways they face them.

Edgeryders is fundamentally premised on the construction of youth as part of the solution, rather than an intrinsic social problem.

With monetary incentives ruled out, the Edgeryders team attempted to make a case for citizens to participate in the exercise by promoting an ethics of civic engagement. Three promises were made.

Participants experiencing trouble making their own transition from youth to adulthood could get help in the form of advice from other participants.

Participants who enjoy mentoring others could get the chance to give advice.

Everyone’s voice would be heard with respect and contribute to a document of policy recommendation, that would be legitimized by the role and prestige of the Council of Europe.

The Edgeryders project adopts a open science stance. The idea is to release valuable data from the project in the public domain, where scholars can reuse them, and perhaps add to the analysis performed by the project’s own research team. In the context of participatory projects like Edgeryders, openness takes on additional value as it helps to build trust and gives the community a feeling of greater control over how they are portrayed in the reports.

edgeryders.ppa.coe.int has 1200 + registered users with around 250 active. 75.000 visits, with 250.000 pageviews. We are easily top return for Google searches on Edgeryders or similar. Even now, with a semidead project, there are around 100 visits a day. The Edgeryders database contains more than 500 mission reports and nearly 4,000 comments.

Edgeryders might be a prototype for online citizen engagement at the European level, well beyond the youth policy context that generated it.

Challenges for the new project: (besides the ones in the “Edgeryders Reloaded: Process Design” google doc)

Interaction happened mostly online. It has to combine online and offline elements in the new project

Interaction online is vastly more trackable and even measurable than its offline counterpart.

Participation on the web is asynchronous, always-on and cheap to maintain.

Representation works relatively well in simple, massified societies. 21st century Europe is not one of them, and the legitimacy of all representation is declining fast.

Meetings don’t scale: involving more people tends to dampen the interaction between any two participants.

Meetings are expensive and hard to organize, so they tend to be few, far between, and highly ritualized.